Scotty's Fish and Chips beats United Milk, 4-1, to clinch the first half at Maple Valley. Andy Phillips, out the previous few weeks, returns to score two first-half goals. Scotty's (7-2-1) stand three points above both Buchan and the Vikings.

Newly-arrived Hungarian refugees form a team to play an exhibition versus Norden, the state league's fourth-place club. They win, 2-1. All fled their homeland in the fall of 1956, during the uprising, and arrived in Seattle in January.

First-half strikes from Pat Brown, George Goers and Mike Kligerman get Buchan Bakers on track for the Northwest championship. The Breadmen hang on for a 3-2 victory over Portland Vikings at Catholic Memorial Stadium.

A team of University of Washington students known as VISA (Visiting International Student Association) receives UW financial backing and renames itself Husky Soccer Club. VISA had joined the state's first division in October 1956.

Both a testimonial match and banquet are held for the ailing Barney Kempton. Proceeds go toward Kempton's medical expenses. Over 500 see Vancouver's Royal Oaks defeat a Seattle all-star selection, 2-0, at Catholic Memorial. Former mayor Bobby Harlin, sports promoter and newspaper editor Royal Brougham are among the banquet speakers who toast Kempton's years of service to the game over 40 years. Besides being an outstanding winger in his day and key administrator, he is credited with keeping the youth game alive, having helped organize the sport in Parochial schools under auspices of the CYO.

The Washington State Soccer Football Association requests permission from the Seattle Park Board to charge 50 cents admission for reserved grandstand seats at Sunday state league games at Lower Woodland Park. WSSFA proposes that the City would receive 10 cents of each admission. General admission bleachers would still be available free of charge.

In a decisive display of attacking soccer, Buchan Bakers win an unprecedented fifth straight league championship. Unbeaten during the second half of the campaign, Buchan erupts for six goals in pounding Norselander Vikings, 6-2, at Catholic Memorial Stadium. Mike Klingerman leads the way with a brace.

It took just under six hours to whittle the field from 22 teams to one victor at the 14th annual Five-a-Side. And the last team standing is Buchan Bakers, 2-0 winners over Vancouver's Taurus at West Seattle Stadium.

Stan Czenis is involved on all three goals in Buchan's 3-0 win over North Vancouver Celtics. It's only the second time in six years a Washington team had beaten a Canadian side. Czenis scores the first and assists Gus Zotos and Tommy Grieve.

Stephen Balogh, sponsor of United Milk, is among the hosts of a holiday party for some 200 Hungarian refugees marking their first Christmas in America. Balogh invited every Hungarian he encountered at a recent United Milk match. Members of the Hungarian Resettlement Service and newly-founded Hungarian-American Society baked cake and pastries, Seattle businesses donated food and toys were distributed to the children attending the party at the Eagle s Temple.